Love Poems – Page 4055

L’ Allegro

Hence, loathed Melancholy,
Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born,
In Stygian cave forlorn, …

John Milton English
Excelsior

The Shades of night were falling fast,
As though an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ’mid snow and ice, …

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow English
Opportunity

He who bends to himself a joy
Does the wingèd life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies …

William Blake English
The Fool’s Prayer

The Royal feast was done; the King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried: “Sir Fool, …

Edward Rowland Sill English
Illusions

Go stand at night upon an ocean craft,
And watch the folds of its imperial train
Catching in fleecy foam a thousand glows— …

Robert Underwood Johnson English
Proem

From “The Isles of the Amazons,” Part III.
COME, lovers, come, forget your pains!
I know upon this earth a spot …

Joaquin Miller English
Beauty

From “An Hymne in Honor of Beautie”
SO every spirit, as it is most pure,
And hath in it the more of heavenly light, …

Edmund Spenser English
Fortune

From the Greek by Richard Garnett
’TWIXT good and ill my wavering fortune see
Swayed in capricious instability, …

Sophocles English
“’T is but a little faded flower”

’t Is but a little faded flower,
But oh, how fondly dear!
’T will bring me back one golden hour, …

Ellen Clementine Howarth English
Proem

From “Myth and Romance”
THERE is no rhyme that is half so sweet
As the song of the wind in the rippling wheat; …

Madison Cawein English